Thinking In Java 3rd Edition Available Online

slothdog writes "Bruce Eckel has made the new 3rd edition of Thinking in Java (and other books) available online. This is a more introductory-level book, although there is a work in progress on Thinking in Patterns and one on the way entitled Thinking in Enterprise Java. All in all, an excellent book for someone not yet familiar with Java. Kudos to Bruce for making it available for download!"

Comments

Re:SWT?

[FattMattP]

Yay! SWT got a footnote! It's a start. Too bad the author is a Java purist who assumes Swing is the only way to build GUIs in Java.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but SWT isn't part of Java; It's an add on from IBM. Bruce Eckel's book is to teach you the Java language as it comes from Sun.

Re:Thinking in C#?

[alyandon]

Contrary to popular belief, C# is not a straight clone of Java although the syntax of the language is very similar.

Translating a book about Java development concepts w/examples to C# makes about as much sense translating a book about Objective C to C++. You really aren't going to pick up on any of the special features/nuances of the language.

Re:Only suitable for those new to BOTH OO and Java

[Nicolay77]

You don't only read the book, you compile every source code with the book and run the code as you read it.

That way you really understand the code. And is fun too.

About the jumping reputation, well that is true, and I still read their C++ books way more than I will read their Java or something else books ever. I would like an update to te C++ series. But that's dreaming I know.